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The popular game app "Spaceteam" does an amazing job of real time p2p communication between iOS and Android devices. It would be great if the developer could r
by habosa 13y ago
The popular game app "Spaceteam" does an amazing job of real time p2p communication between iOS and Android devices. It would be great if the developer could release some sort of open-source library for those connections so other people could build on his/her work.
- morsch 13y agoNot via Bluetooth though. Also, mobile hotspot clients (any OS) do not see the host. We failed to play on a recent camping trip.
- lmm 13y agoRather than a mobile hotspot you want to create an ad-hoc wifi network between your devices. I've successfully played that way.
- wvenable 13y agoThis really isn't device-to-device communication -- both the iOS and Android devices have to be on the same WiFi network for Spaceteam to work.
- habosa 13y agoOnly when using cross-platform. Bluetooth works for Android-->Android or iOS-->iOS.
- zbowling 13y agoHey! That was our doing. :-) Apportable (Winter 2011) worked to bring Spaceteam over to Android and we had to face this problem head on. Bluetooth LE does work for Android <-> iOS but it requires a really new Android device with the right hardware, otherwise the safest option is Wifi. A lot of code involved. We open sourced the code we wrote to run on the Android side: https://github.com/apportable/Bluetooth https://github.com/apportable/Bluetooth
- habosa 13y agoThanks for the reply, and great work! This is why I love Hacker News.